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One must make a distinction however: when dragged into prominence by half poets, the result is not poetry, nor till the autocrats among us can be “literalists of the imagination”—above insolence and triviality and can present for inspection, imaginary gardens with real toads in them, shall we have it.

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Saturday, March 24, 2012

The Sunday Challenge ~ Featuring Kat Mortensen

Today, I am pleased to introduce Kat Mortensen, of Poetikat, to Real Toads. She is a mid-life poet/photographer who lives in small-town Southern Ontario, Canada with her husband, her mom and their three cats. She writes in the morning after her coffee, but will often respond to prompts on the spot. She likes variety.

Portrait of the Artist

“Don’t worry about cool. Make your own uncool. Make your own, your own world.”

These words by Sol LeWitt are to be found on Kat's blog, and I can see that she has taken them to heart.

You are welcome to view more of Kat's images on her blog, My Little Town, Elora. However, we ask that you do not select one of those photos for this prompt without the express permission of the artist.

The Sunday Challenge is posted on Saturday at noon CST to allow extra time for the creative process, so please do not link up old work which kind of fits the image. Members will only respond to poetry written specifically for this prompt: this is in the spirit of our Real Toads project to create opportunities for poets to be newly inspired.

Great pics to choose from! Sometimes I can struggle with these photo prompts, mostly just deciding which one to pick, but this time around one of them was just screaming at me! Thanks for the prompt, as always.

ha, thanks kat...tesla did a remake of the song and if i am not mistaken the title of that album was mechanical resonance which is probably where i got that from...sad, i even looked it up to be sure and my mind still mixed it...

Lord...the talent around here is daunting at times. The photos are beautiful and hit me in the heart having grew up around all of that. the poem is a knockout and yes, hard to feel like anything I do can measure up. Amazing Kat.

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